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Yi Lu

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Claudia LU Yi's research areas include administrative law, food and drug law, risk regulation, international trade, and legal issues related to China's legal reform. She has published articles on the role of the media in risk communication during the COVID-19 era, the precautionary principle in China's food safety law, China's participation in the WTO dispute settlement mechanism, soft law challenges in the China-ASEAN food safety cooperation framework, and the impact of the 2004 EU ban on Chinese medicine. Her J.S.D. dissertation explores co-governance models in the field of food safety regulation, proposes a conceptual framework for addressing tensions between science and decision-making, regulation and democracy, and makes policy recommendations for establishing a co-governance framework in China.

    Lu Yi obtained J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Yale Law School. She served as a senior researcher at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, a researcher at the Global Health Justice Cooperation, Senior Editor of Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics and Senior Editor of Yale Journal of International Law. She obtained her J.D. and J.M. degress from Peking University School of Transnational Law. She was a member of the Willem C. Vis (East) Moot Court Team and the Transnational Legal Clinic. In addition, she has served as a lecturer at Peking University School of Transnational Law and Assistant Director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies, and has worked at Clifford Chance LLP, Morrison & Foerster LLP, TransAsia Lawyers and Shenzhen Municipal Government. She was invited as an arbitrator several times for the Willem C. Vis (East) Moot Court Competition (Hong Kong).

  • 1. Yi Lu, Revisiting the role of media in risk communication—A case study on China in the COVID-19 crisis, Conference papers on Current Legal Issues in the Coronavirus Period (2020).

    2. Yi Lu, Critical Thinking about the Precautionary Principle in China’s Food Safety Law, 11(4) Frontiers of Law in China, 692-717 (2016).

    3. Yi Lu, Challenges in China-ASEAN Food Safety Cooperation Governance Through Soft Law, 1 Peking U. Transnat'l L. Rev. 141-155 (2015).

    4. Yi Lu, Exploring Aggressive Legalism: Is Now A Good Time to Promote This Approach in Greater Asia?, 6(1) Asian Journal of Law and Economics 85-123 (2015).

    5. Yi Lu, On Mainland-Macau Food Safety Cooperation under the ‘One Country Two Systems’ Policy-And Improvement of National Governance Capability. (论在“一国两制”背景下如何促进内地与澳门的食品安全合作——兼论国家治理能力的提升). The paper was awarded Excellent Paper jointly by the China Law Society and the Macau Basic Law Promotion Association at the 2014 Cross-strait Youth Forum on Legal Development. 该文荣获中国法学会和澳门基本法推广会主办的2014年两岸四地法治发展青年论坛优秀奖。

    6. Yi Lu, To Be an Aggressive but Patient Learner—Analysis of China’s Participation in Defending Anti-Dumping Challenges within the WTO Framework, 1 Peking U. Transnat'l L. Rev. 373-419 (2013).

    7. Francis Snyder, Yi Lu & Gulrez Yazdani, Traditional Chinese Medicine and European Union Law: Cultural Logics, Product Identities, Market Competition, Legal Rechanneling, and the Need for Global Legal and Medical Pluralism, 2(1) Peking U. L. J. 130-200 (2014).

    8. Francis Snyder & Yi Lu, Transnational Law and the EU: Reflections from WISH in China, 19(6) E.L.J., 705–10 (2013).

    9. Francis Snyder & Yi Lu (eds.), The Future of Transnational Law: EU, USA, China and the BRICS/Le Futur du Droit Transnational: L’Union Européenne, Les États-Unis, La Chine et Les BRICS (9th International Workshop for Young Scholars (WISH)/9ème Rencontre Internationale des Jeunes Chercheurs (RIJC)) (Bruylant Publishers, Brussels, 2014).


    • J.S.D., YALE LAW SCHOOL

    • LL.M., YALE LAW SCHOOL

    • J.D., PEKING UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW

    • J.M., PEKING UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF TRANSNATIONAL LAW

    • B.A., TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS


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